ext_13424 ([identity profile] reannon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] truepenny 2008-08-18 07:30 pm (UTC)

very nearly stopped the CD at the point where he was explaining prototypical definitions with the example of female beauty. "We look at a woman," he says, and you know what? That "we" does not include any women in it. It's that nice unexamined "the generic pronoun in English is 'he'" kind of misogyny which has no animus against women, and it doesn't matter unless you ARE a woman, in which case you suddenly feel like you've been asked to leave.

May I quote you?

P.S. Midichlorians violate the Heisenberg Compensator School of Science Fiction and are therefore evil.

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